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State Rep. George Cleveland, R-Onslow, believes the integrity of North Carolina elections is at risk. He’s fighting to toughen enforcement. “I think the level of voting fraud is a heck of a lot higher than we are privy to. It is something that’s undermining our democracy.

Educators are more concerned about how much time students spend on social media at home as compared to the time they spend online in the classroom. Education Week’s annual Technology Counts survey asked principals and school-based leaders across the country about…

RALEIGH — It’s time to get aggressive in the fight against opioid addiction, said U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions during a Raleigh presentation on the nationwide opioid crisis. Sessions, the nation’s top law-enforcement officer, is a longstanding crusader in the war on drugs. Now he faces…

The need to train school resource officers more intensively was a recurring theme during a meeting of the Student Physical Safety and Security working group. The group is one of two offshoots of the House Select Committee on School Safety. While the other working group…

CHAPEL HILL — Faculty leaders at the University of North Carolina’s flagship campus recently signed a resolution supporting First Amendment rights — a move that’s positive but may have little impact on actual policy, said Laura Beltz, a spokeswoman for the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education.

The N.C. Supreme Court on Monday heard another round of arguments over school funding — this time whether county commissioners or General Assembly lawmakers are responsible for guaranteeing sufficient spending. In Silver et al. v. Halifax County Board of Commissioners,…

See Editor’s Note at end of story. Alicia Moran is a junior at Bob Jones University in South Carolina, studying to get her bachelor’s degree in communications disorders. She wants to return to her home state of North Carolina to work, but the licensing scheme here may keep her away.

RALEIGH — Americans have debated the U.S. Constitution’s meaning for more than 225 years. A recent book, The Republic of Virtue: How We Tried to Ban Corruption, Failed, and What We Can Do About It, argues that the Constitution’s framers wanted to create an anti-corruption covenant. Author F.H. “Frank” Buckley…